To lack
חָסֵרStrong’s H2637chaser (cha-ser)
Appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chaser is the Hebrew word usually translated “it will be lacking”, “decreased” and “decreasing”. It appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.”
Meaning
- To lack, be without, decrease, be lacking, have a need(Qal) · (Piel) to cause to lack · (Hiphil) to cause to be lacking
How it's translated
- it will be lacking 2
- and they decreased 1
- and decreasing 1
- they will lack 1
- he had a lack 1
- you have lacked 1
- you will lack 1
- it was lacking 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 3
- Deuteronomy 3
- Psalms 3
- Ecclesiastes 3
- 1 Kings 2
- Proverbs 2
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 8:5And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
- Genesis 18:28Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
- Exodus 16:18And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
- Deuteronomy 2:7For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
- Deuteronomy 8:9A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
- Deuteronomy 15:8But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
Hebrew dictionary
חָסֵר chaser · to lack
1) to lack, be without, decrease, be lacking, have a need 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to lack 1a2) to be lacking 1a3) to diminish, decrease 1b) (Piel) to cause to lack 1c) (Hiphil) to cause to be lacking
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lack” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LACK, verb transitive
[Latin deliquium, which seems to be connected with linquo, to leave, to faint, and with liquo, to melt, liquid, etc.]
- To want; to be destitute of; not to have or possess.
- To blame. [Not in use.]
All definitions and other forms of “lack”
LACK, verb intransitive
- To be in want.“The young lions do lack and suffer hunger” Psalms 34:10
- To be wanting.“Perhaps there shall lack five of the fifty righteous” Genesis 18:28
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.